Assessing & Advising Parents

Assessing & Advising Parents with Practical Research-Based Tools

Course
1 Lesson

(6-hour Basic training for Child Welfare Professionals)

Parents often hear or follow unhealthy advice or use quick-fix solutions that bring unhealthy long-term results. They need clear guidelines and practical skills that empower them to plan healthy, individualized solutions to their parenting problems. This interactive LIVE WEBINAR teaches a reliable step-by-step method for assessing and guiding parents you serve as a child welfare professional.

This course is available as a live webinar or in-person course taught by a Certified Child Welfare Toolshop® Trainer at your location. Click "Contact Us" above to request an on-site trainer. In Ohio, this training is available through OCWTP as "Take My Advice."

Learning Objectives:

Child Welfare Professionals who attend this workshop will learn how to:

• Advise, support, and inform parents of diverse populations, utilizing universally effective, trauma-informed, and research-based techniques and accurate advice that dispels common parenting myths and promotes healthy human growth and development.

• Empower parents with practical advice. You will learn to use the Universal Blueprint® yourself, to assess the root cause of the parenting challenge and to support the parent in planning individualized responses, using the practical tools that are a part of this unique problem-solving, decision-making system.

Note: the contents of this course are for your education and use ONLY. It does not certify you to teach these concepts to others. Click the Contact Us" link at the top to request more information about Parent Trainer Certification.

OHIO Protective Service Staff:

This program is similar has been approved it for 6 hours of OCWTP* and Ohio SW continuing education credits, meeting the following OCWTP competencies:

117-04-002: Understands how age-appropriate children's behaviors can be misinterpreted and experienced as stressful by parents
117-04-004: Understands how parenting strategies that involve power and coercion can contribute to maltreatment and to developmental, behavioral, and emotional problems in children
117-04-007: Knows strategies to help parents develop realistic and age-appropriate expectations for their children's behavior as a means of preventing future maltreatment
117-04-008: Can guide parents to acquire parenting skills and behaviors that promote children's healthy development and reduce the risk of maltreatment
117-05: Ability to promote and sustain healthy attachments between children and their families or caregivers
117-05-009: Can help educate parents to promote the development of positive parent-child attachment
305-01-002: Knows how cultural values and standards regarding parenting and discipline practices can impact parents’ and caregivers’ behavior toward their children
305-02-007 Knows how to provide constructive feedback and support to parents and caregivers as they learn and use new skills
322-01-003: Understands the potential reasons children misbehave and the adult responses that support and reinforce misbehavior
322-01-007: Understands the principles and uses of behavior management strategies, including modeling and shaping appropriate behavior, positive reinforcement, redirection, natural and logical consequences, time out, withholding reinforcement and extinction, and consistency in setting and reinforcing limits

This course is provided LIVE AND IN PERSON by the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program (OCWTP*) under the name "Take My Advice." It is taught both here and there by ...

RTITI's Founder/CEU Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE, CTSS

Jody, the Founder/CEO of RTITI, is a Licensed Social Worker, Certified Family Life Educator, and a Certified Trauma Support Specialist. She is the author of an award-winning parenting book and evidence-based curriculum called The Parent's Toolshop® and has created over 100 multimedia parenting resources. Jody has trained and certified over 100 Toolshop® Instructors worldwide and over a dozen Relationship Toolshop® Experts, with whom she co-authors new Toolshop® training programs and resources that support people in using her unique “Universal Blueprint® for Relationship Success” to improve other relationships in their lives. Jody is a top-rated speaker who has trained over 50,000 parents and family-service professionals worldwide. She also has served as a parenting expert to the media for over 30 years, including being the Co-Producer and Parenting Expert for the Emmy-nominated “Ident-a-Kid” television series.

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Course Materials

Since this is a LIVE VIRTUAL course, materials will be provided at the time of the live presentation. After signing up for the list to be notified of the next live virtual presentation of this course you will be contacted to fill out a Doodle Poll of best dates for you to attend. The live sessions will be recorded and archived here.

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